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The puncture kit is a great tip, will keep that in mind for longer trips. Also I have one of those $6 12V air compressor I got from Super Cheap Auto. Definately going to pack that under the seat too.

$6 12v air compressor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



where?????????????


i went in last weekend and the cheapest they had was $60.00

damn for $6 i would buy 4 of them


are they still available...model/brand....picture?

sounds like the supercheap auto i went wasnt so supercheap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rocco wrote:the shop i went into today had this idea......they were selling liquid latex in a bottle with a valve attachment



the idea was that you fill your tyre up with the liquid latex and it seals in a matter of minutes.

250ml bottle $23



i played with the liquid and it skinned in a matter of seconds if not minutes


still though you have to get air into the tyre.......i like the little air compressor idea.....bike biz have a MCS handpump with a co2 bottle fitting for attaching bottles to it......has anyone seen it. i seen one today and its about 6-7inches and is a little bike pump but man you would have to pump that thing for ages to get somewhere...does anyone have one?

Any of the liquid type......Slime etc WILL throw your tyre out of balance and whilst OK at city speeds it's a whole different matter at Strika's commuting speeds !

rocco wrote:$6 12v air compressor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
where?????????????
i went in last weekend and the cheapest they had was $60.00
damn for $6 i would buy 4 of them
are they still available...model/brand....picture?

I got it about 4 years ago. It looks very similar to the cheapy air compressor already posted. Makes a lot of noise, takes about 3 to 5 minutes to fully inflate a flat car tyre.

rocketrod wrote:Lets see ya little repair kit fix this............

I'm pretty sure that will just buff out Rod! Is that a power on the back of that mate?

smek wrote:thanks for posting those scanned instructions!

invaluable... the engrish instructions written on the cigarette paper that came with my kit made no sense at all.

Billy, remember how I told you my tyre had 11psi in ? well now we know why!

Mate told you not to use that pump u got from the XXX shop on ya bike , now take care when ya get out the one ya bought from the Garage an plug it into ....

well went to bunnings today and found a little air compressor 12v 300psi with a whopping 3YEAR Replacement warranty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


all for 20 bux

3 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


will strip it out of its case and find a nice little spot for it under the seat for long journeys


Roc

BTW race replica has a complete kit with the gas bottles, the puncture repair and the little pouch, wasn't too badly priced either. if i didnt already have the kit i would have jumped on that one.

I still need to fit my accessories port.. has anyone else done it(fit the accessories port), how did you go?

while those long strip plugs are good - ive used them many times in my tyres (altho i havent had that many in the last five years) but i'd never had a tyre lose a plug til the other weekend on the road to oberon and i had an 80 kilo pillion on board, and then i noticed the hole in the tyre (which is about halfway between top and side edge) had grown somewhat.. one of those plugs got me home with no further drama but i needed 3 CO2 canisters to fill it up enough to get me back to mt victoria servo to pump up the tyre properly..
why the plug fell out was probably due to the speeds as well as the loads on the tyre when leaning over in corners making different parts of the tyre move/stretch and tear slightly therefore causing the plug to lose its hold and disappear..
but anyway got home fine and first thing i did the next day was whip the tyre off and put one of those proper plugs on from the inside of the tyre, sort of like a long solid elastic tube with a circle at the end which sits on the inside of said tyre (cant think of the name).. tyre's all good now but not long before i replace it.
i guess what i'm saying here is due to the speeds bikes can get up to, the usual emergency kit plug will do to get you to the nearest servo or home but not for the long term or especially if youre into fanging it something hard. in some cases a tyre replacement would be advisable.

These puncture repair kits are a great idea and I alwways travel with one. I'm glad the one you used worked and all is good....

But I couldn't let this little gem go past...


(I even waited to see if someone else was going to jump on it.....)

wisc wrote: ....... We find the hole it looks like it’s a nail hole which no longer contains the hole........

Cheers,
Pete

plane wrote:These puncture repair kits are a great idea and I alwways travel with one. I'm glad the one you used worked and all is good....

But I couldn't let this little gem go past...


Pete

if your gonna pick on someones grammar its always a good idea to make sure your post has no typo's

last hole = nail... hey it was a long post! its bound to have mistakes in it!